Endif

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Name: ENDIF
Location: Reno, Nevada, USA
Years Active: 1991 - present
Label: Crunch Pod / Tympanik Audio
Current Members: Jason Hollis

[edit] Biography

Endif was spawned in 1991 by Jason Hollis as a means of extracting the sounds and songs rattling around his cranium. Experimentation, live performance, technical accumen, and pushing aesthetic boundaries are core values. Emphasis is placed more upon energy, emotion, context and texture than on stale commercial formulas, towering arrangements or catchy pop hooks. The output is genre-irrelevant, yet given the often harsh soundsets involved, often gets lumped in with the 'Power Noise' catch-all category. Which is fine, as that seems to be where most of the innovation is.

Initial efforts were simple, often very low grade, poorly recorded, purely exploratory. Subsequent efforts built upon lessons learned, and soon was fit for human consumption. Nearly all of this has been archived, recycled, and used as a sonic mulch pile from which to build new compositions. As a result, even the newest tracks using the cleanest production methods still retain a heritage of decay to varying degrees.

[edit] Timeline

  • 2000 Endif's priority was upgraded and activity tripled.
  • 2001 Endif was among the founding members, and remains the administrator, of Thirdwave Collective
  • 2005 Endif co-released Meld - Endif vs. Caustic (Sonic Mainline/Thirdwave) to coincide with playing Reverence Festival and Los Angeles Industrial Festival.
  • 2006 Endif signed a deal to release Meta on Crunch Pod.

[edit] Live

Since its inception, Endif has performed live with a broad spectrum of other artists:

Monstrum Sepsis, Combichrist, Tonikom, Vuxnut, Antigen Shift, The Operative, Android Lust, Cyanotic, Spahn Ranch, Edgey, Mono No Aware, God Project, C/A/T, Heliosphere, Dripping Rictus, S.Cage, Null Device, Mad E.P., Neuroverse, RAM, TV, God Module, Concrete Cookie and the Dog, W.A.S.T.E., Unwoman, Cruciform Injection, Blind Faith and Envy, Caustic, Glis, Sensuous Enemy, End User, Imperative Reaction, Cacophony, Mach Fox, Scrape[dx], Ecraft, Switchblade Symphony, The Gothsicles, Paraclude, Cruxshadows, Prometheus Burning, Stochastic Theory, Provision, Wraith, Hate Dep't., Control Theory, Sensuous Enemy, Victo Ecret, Thoushaltnot, Apraxia, Stromkern, Terrorfakt, Invertabrae, Firewerk, Urceus Exit, Manufactura, Pisstake, and :|Krew.


Live support gigs as percussion/keys for other bands have included: Terrorfakt, CTRLSHFT, Wraith, Cervello Elettronico, Thirteen13, Teknoize, Caustic, Manufactura, and Caustic vs. This Morn' Omina.


Live plug in performers have included Matt Fanale, Joe Ferraro, Will Shade, Alfred Trautman, Kevan Christiaens, Vance Christiaens, Ben Arp, Vuxnut, and Fred Beecher.


Sonic contributors to individual Endif tracks include Siren313 , Fred Beecher, J. Conley, Mort Rigdon, and Alfred Trautman.


Cities Razed: Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Reno, Madison, Fresno, San Francisco, Minneapolis


Cities Targeted near-term for cleansing: Boston, Pittsburgh, Madison, Chicago, DC, Detroit, SF, LA, NYC

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[edit] Discography

Endif - Meta
Endif - Meta
  • 2004: v/a Compilation Collective Consciousness (Thirdwave)

- Featured track = Ashes

- 300 units, hand made, signed and numbered

- Featured track = Endif vs. Liechenfeld - Carrion Swarm

  • 2006: Das Bunker Presents: Fear Of A Distorted Planet (2CD)(Das Bunker)

- Featured track = Crackpipe

- Featured track = Sleeper Cell

- Featured track = Peeling the Layers

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